AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

Tue Mar 17 18:17:06 UTC 2020

Things have been eerily quiet where we are (Oklahoma). We're an eyeball
network and have had no noticeable changes in bandwidth usage that couldn't
be explained by statistical noise.

We keep game planning more and more contingency scenarios, waiting to jump
when needed, but things have just been unexpectedly normal.

Perhaps we're behind the game in impact. I'd be curious to hear about
networks that are "ahead of us", and what the impact has been.

On 03/15/20 02:30 +0000, John van Oppen wrote:
>We are seeing the peak spread out…   we carry mostly pacific northwest residential networks…  we are also seeing new, slightly higher evening peaks.
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>From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Rishi Singh
>Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 8:25 AM
>To: Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>
>Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>Subject: Re: AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus
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>Curious if anyone here (especially at CenturyLink / AT&T/ Comcast) has seen any graphs of network traffic over time and could share details (redacted of course due to the sensitivity). Would love to hear if/how capacity is constrained with more people working form home.
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>On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:36 PM Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net<mailto:jared at puck.nether.net>> wrote:
>I do worry if the broadband networks have the capacity. WFH traffic is usually different from regular consumer traffic. My neighbors were telling me about the mandatory work from home they had today and how the VPN struggled to work.
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>To those upgrading those things, keep at it. You will get there.
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>Sent from my iCar
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>> On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com<mailto:sean at donelan.com>> wrote:
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>> The first data cap waiver I've seen due to coronavirus.  I expect other ISPs to quickly follow.
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>> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis
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>> AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans bunker down in a bid to slow the rate of COVID-19 expansion. Consumer groups and a coalition of Senators are now pressuring other ISPs to follow suit.

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